Technology

AACRAO's Retention of Records: Guide for Retention and Disposal of Student Records 2010 Update (Table of Contents and Introduction)
$77 nonmember/$55 member; Shelby Stanfield; 2010; 67 pp; Item #0126
The 2010 Retention of Records Guide provides standards in student records management, and is designed to help you craft an effective institutional retention policy in compliance with Federal and State law. It places greater emphasis on electronic records and expands recommendations regarding the security of those records. It also expands its recommendations for record retention schedules and for the first time offers differentiated retention periods for community and technical colleges alongside four-year schools. Contact information for state records management agencies has been included, as well as a case study to help you develop a retention and disposal policy for academic department offices.
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Electronic Data Exchange Primer (Table of Contents and Introduction)
$35 nonmember/$25 member; Monique Snowden, Barry Billing and Clare Smith-Larson; 2008; 64 pp; Item 0123
The EDX Primer addresses the most commonly asked questions regarding electronic data exchanges, including matters relating to both traditional EDI standards and contemporary XML data standards as shaped by the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC). Written by the AACRAO SPEEDE Committee, the Primercompiles EDX-related technology and contact information resources, along with lists of Web site sources and state, provincial, and regional initiatives and mandates. 
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The SEM Imperative: Taking Enrollment Management Online (Table of Contents and Prologue) 
$80 nonmember/$60 member; 2007; 220 pp.; Item #0119
The SEM Imperative: Taking Enrollment Management Online challenges enrollment managers to customize electronic media, print material, and telephone customer interactions to create a flexible multi-channel marketing plan. The guide helps institutions communicate with Millennial students who increasingly take initiative by shopping for colleges online and posting their experiences on user-generated content sites like YouTube. Authors Craig Westman of the University of Texas-El Paso and Penny Bouman of Ferris State University promote the proactive of use all relevant media in order to share positive institutional stories with prospective student markets—videos, blogs, chat, video games, Second Life, flexible modes of teaching, and interactive Web sites. 
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Community Colleges and Student Information Systems Implementation: A Survey on the Registrar's Role (Table of Contents and Prologue) 
$50 nonmember/$35 member; 2006; Item #0114 
Colleges considering a new system implementation should view the statistics on how different strategies can affect the job of the registrar. Drawing conclusions from a national survey of community and technical college registrars,Community Colleges and Student Information Systems Implementation explores differences in job duties and responsibilities as well as role conflict and ambiguity related to different implementation strategies. The author, Sandra Lepley of University of Central Florida examines in-house, outsourced and consortia implementation strategies, and their relation to college demographic characteristics. 
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Gamers Go to College (Table of Contents) 
$70 nonmember/$50 member; 2006; Item #0112 
Gamers Go to College illustrates how Gamers create and demand a convergence of technology in higher education. A subculture of the Millennials, Gamers are noted for their increased use of technology over previous groups of students. The publication's overarching theme highlights the vital role communication plays and the varying venues that are at higher education's disposal in light of the Gamers generation. This publication was authored by Craig Westman and Penny Bouman of Ferris State University . 
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Student Information Systems: A Guide to Implementation Success (Table of Contents)
$95 Nonmembers/$70 Members; 2005; Dr. Sharon F. Cramer; Item #0108 
What will expedite the implementation of a student information system? Student Information Systems: A Guide to Implementation Succes s contains constructive examples and practical suggestions, giving readers a step-by-step approach to improving campus buy-in, communication, collaboration and funding; as well as leading project team members and campus administrators through the critically important realities of a successful implementation or upgrade. The guide can assist everyone on campus involved in the implementation to develop and achieve their short-and long-term goals for student information system implementation.  
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Final Report NSF - LAMP Project: Identifying Where Technology Logging and Monitoring for Increased Security End and Violations of Personal Privacy and Student Records Begin 
$28 nonmember/$20 member; Virginia E. Rezmierski and Nathaniel St. Clair; 2001; Item 0104 
This study provides information for college and university personnel regarding logging activities and informs them about when such activities might require substantial limitations, management guidelines, and additional training requirements or policies. It also investigates whether the kinds of log data being collected constitute "education records" as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and if various uses of the data violate the privacy rights of students under the act. 
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